#vulture culture

bisoubleu:

my newest skull in my collection!

kijocvlt:

Spent all summer cleaning this deer skull, there are still blobs of stubborn grease but I don’t have a set up that’ll work through the cold temps, so we’ll have to wait to address those. Regardless, all the teeth stayed, and I’m really happy with that!

aoelaighfinnartist:

I have a tiny 1 bedroom apartment and the only permanent altar I have is a devotional on top of a drawer, so any divination or spellcraft gets done on my portable altar.

this is just a cheapo folding lap desk from Target for like 25$, it even has USB ports if you have electric wax warmers or if you like to use LED lights on your altar. useful for the spacially limited witch, or even a broom closet witch ♡

all the bones & teeth are ethically sourced (aka I found them in the woods) and the herb bundles all came from my garden (rosemary, juniper, mint).

undead-deer:

Buck skull a family friend found.

aoelaighfinnartist:

updates on my current work in progress! this is a commission and won’t be for sale. micron pen on ethically sourced doe skull ♡

roadkill-and-rot:

The last post I rbed about the for-profit body dissection without permission is a perfect example of why I’m so wary of macabre oddities and that sort of thing - I love vulture culture and taxidermy and that love comes from an appreciation for biology and anatomy and finding beauty in death because it’s a completely natural thing that needs more positivity

When you venture into collecting dead things and ~spooky~ objects for shock value and “ew look it’s so creepy lol isn’t that weird” territory then I’ve personally found that a lot of the time ethics tend to get ignored - obviously ethics are different for everyone in this hobby, but there are things that everyone can agree are definitely unethical e.g literal fucking graverobbing which is unfortunately a lot more common than you’d think

Obviously I’m not saying that collecting weird oddities is automatically unethical or anything, but there’s a lot of really shady shit with some oddity sellers and ethics CANNOT be ignored when you’re dealing with dead things, whether it’s human or animal. Personally I can’t stand the thought of owning any human remains because so many human skulls on the oddity market are of indigenous people that were graverobbed by some bastard for a quick profit. It just feels so so disrespectful because that was a person and now they’ve been reduced to some ~creepy aesthetic~

Even things like medical specimens make me uneasy too because again, that’s literally a person, and for a bunch of medical specimens, they were also graverobbed in the first place

Anyway I don’t know where I’m really going with this post but uh, Graverobbing Is Bad and people need to stop selling literal fucking humans as some ~quirky home decor~

Theres a serenity that comes with taking care of smth dead like yes this is how its always been and will always be. Something dies and something alive takes care of it - there is no other way

Marbled Morbid White.

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